| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: whose branches run over the wall:
GEN 49:23 The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and
hated him:
GEN 49:24 But his bow abode in strength, and the arms of his hands were
made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob; (from thence is the
shepherd, the stone of Israel:)
GEN 49:25 Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee; and by
the Almighty, who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above,
blessings of the deep that lieth under, blessings of the breasts, and of
the womb:
GEN 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 48:2 And one told Jacob, and said, Behold, thy son Joseph cometh
unto thee: and Israel strengthened himself, and sat upon the bed.
GEN 48:3 And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at
Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,
GEN 48:4 And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and
multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will
give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
GEN 48:5 And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born
unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are
mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
GEN 48:6 And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible: go in.
JDG 15:2 And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly
hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger
sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.
JDG 15:3 And Samson said concerning them, Now shall I be more blameless
than the Philistines, though I do them a displeasure.
JDG 15:4 And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took
firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst
between two tails.
JDG 15:5 And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into
the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible: KI1 8:52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy
servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto
them in all that they call for unto thee.
KI1 8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy
servant, when thou broughtest our fathers out of Egypt, O LORD God.
KI1 8:54 And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying
all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the
altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up
to heaven.
KI1 8:55 And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with
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